The 5th Multidisciplinary Conference on Reinforcement Learning and Decision Making (RLDM2022)

June 8-11, 2022

Brown University, Providence, RI, USA

Over the last few decades, reinforcement learning and decision making have been the focus of an incredible wealth of research spanning a wide variety of fields including psychology, artificial intelligence, machine learning, operations research, control theory, animal and human neuroscience, economics and ethology. Key to many developments in the field has been interdisciplinary sharing of ideas and findings. The goal of RLDM is to provide a platform for communication among all researchers interested in “learning and decision making over time to achieve a goal”. The meeting is characterized by the multidisciplinarity of the presenters and attendees, with cross-disciplinary conversations and teaching and learning being central objectives along with the dissemination of novel theoretical and experimental results. The main meeting will be single-track, consisting of a mixture of invited and contributed talks, tutorials, and poster sessions.

See here for more information.

Important Dates Registration and Call for Submission Closes: July 15, 2021 Notification of Acceptance: July 29, 2021 Days of the Workshop September 9, 2021 (Day 1): Tutorials September 10, 2021 (Day 2): Research Talks Stay tuned for updates about the 2nd Workshop on Mental Effort by signing up for our newsletter. Scope and goal We can all feel exhausted after a day of work, even if we have spent it sitting at a desk. The intuitive concept of mental effort pervades virtually all domains of human information processing and has become an indispensable ingredient for general theories of cognition. However, inconsistent use of the term across cognitive sciences, including cognitive psychology, education, human-factors engineering and artificial intelligence, makes it one of the least well-defined theoretical constructs across fields.

The purpose of our two-day workshop is to bridge this gap by (a) offering hands-on tutorials on different computational approaches used to model mental effort and by (b) fostering discussion about the operationalization of mental effort among scientists from different research communities and modeling backgrounds.

List of Speakers (alphabetical order) Andrew Caplin (New York University) Anne Collins (UC Berkeley) Roshan Cools (Radboud University) Thomas Goschke (TU Dresden) Clay Holroyd (Ghent University) Candace Raio (New York University) Lynne Reder (Carnegie Mellon University) Christopher Wickens (formerly University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)

List of Tutorial Instructors (alphabetical order) Anastasia Bizyaeva (Princeton University) Laura Bustamante (Princeton University) Jonathan D. Cohen (Princeton University) Andra Geana (Brown University) Sebastian Musslick (Princeton University) Mads Pedersen (University of Oslo) Angela Radulescu (New York University) Maria Wirzberger (University of Stuttgart)

https://sites.google.com/view/mental-effort

ViDA is a virtual dopamine conference for specialists in the field to discuss cutting edge research during the coronavirus pandemic.

About this Event Welcome to the second annual Virtual Dopamine (ViDA) conference! We are delighted to be hosting another conference online this year, which we hope will encourage everyone to attend and increase accessibility for all scientists.

Our key speakers include Okihide Hikosaka, Ann Graybiel, Roshan Cools, Marisela Morales, Bernardo Sabatini, Roy Wise among many others. We hope to see you there!

Important Dates:

Short talk abstract deadline: May 14th Poster abstract deadline: June 1st Notification for poster or short talk: June 1st The deadline for attendees to register is June 22. For those interested in presenting their research, please submit a poster abstract by June 1st. If you are interested in giving a selected talk, these will be selected from the poster abstracts and you can indicate if you'd like to be considered for this. You will be notified of your acceptance by June 1st.

The finalized schedule will be released in the upcoming weeks. The program booklet (with zoom links) will be released a few days prior to the conference start.

We are happy to waive the $5 registration fee for whoever requests it, no questions asked. Please email us at vidaconference@gmail.com to receive the code.

For more information, visit our website: http://www.vidaconference.com/

The Tenth International Symposium on Biology of Decision Making (SBDM 2021) is scheduled to take place on May 10-12, 2021.

Due the situation, the symposium will be 100% online.

The objective of this three-day symposium will be to gather people from different research fields with different approaches (economics, ethology, psychiatry, robotics, neural and computational approaches) to decision making.

The conference will include 5 sessions:

1. Facing the consequences of one's decisions (Chair: Patrick Haggard)
2. Decision-making manipulations in labs and clinics (chair: Mathias Pessiglione)
3. Decision-making in computational modeling, robotics and AI (Chairs: Kenji Doya, Mehdi Khamassi)
4. Compared cognition across primate species (Chair: Sébastien Bouret)
5. Mutual benefits: Incorporating learning rules in sequential sampling models (Chair: Birte Forstmann)

IMPORTANT DATES

March 26, 2021 April 4, 2021 Extended deadline for Poster Submission

April 16, 2021 Notification of Poster Acceptance

April 30, 2021 Deadline for Registration

May 10-12, 2021 Meeting Venue

MCC 2019 is an interdisciplinary meeting fostering scientific exchange of experts and young researchers on the neuronal and computational mechanisms of cognitive control, decision making, and motivation. This meeting will be the 7th in a series of highly successful meetings that began with a meeting in Jena organized by Michael Coles and Wolfgang Miltner in 2000 and continued with meetings in Dortmund (Michael Falkenstein and Markus Ullsperger), Amsterdam (Sander Nieuwenhuis, Rogier Mars and Richard Ridderinkhof), Oxford (Rogier Mars, Jerome Sallet, MaryAnn Noonan), Paris (Sebastien Bouret, Mark Laubach, Jerome Sallet), and St Andrews (Martin O’Neill, Redmond O’Connell, Jerome Sallet, Steve Kennerley, Verity Brown).

The main goal of the MCC 2019 is to bring together research fields and methodological approaches ranging from cognitive and systems neuroscience, experimental psychology, neuroeconomics, and computational modeling in humans, non-human primates and rodents. Bringing together this diverse group of researchers in an informal but science-focused atmosphere will allow them to discuss current opinions and novel methodological approaches in the field. Previous meetings have shown that this format can lead to highly productive collaborations. For more information see here.

This year Roshan Cools will be on of the speakers at MCC.

This year Roshan Cools are one of the invited keynote speakers at Conference on Cognitive Computational Neuroscience (CCN) in Berlin, Germany. For more information see here.

2019 OHBM ANNUAL MEETING

“The OHBM Annual Meeting is the place to learn about the latest international research across modalities in human brain mapping. It is an opportunity for you to have one-on-one discussions with experts in the field and connect with your peers from all over the world. At the educational sessions, junior and senior scientists of various backgrounds teach about the most current and ground-breaking developments in the field, including machine learning techniques, high resolution imaging and most recently also open science methods. The meeting is held every June at stunning locations alternating between North America, Europe and the Asia-Pacific region.”

Roshan Cools will be giving a keynote on ‘Chemical Neuromodulation of the Adaptive Mind’ at OHBM 2019. To register or find more information click here.

Control Processes Meeting 2019

Organizers
Adam R. Aron, UC San Diego
David Badre, Brown University
Roshan Cools, Radboud University

Synopsis of Meeting
“Control Processes” brings together a diverse group of scientists each year addressing cognitive control function from a range of approaches and levels of analysis, including human cognitive psychology, computational modeling, neuroscience, anatomy, disease and disorder, and animal models.

For more information look here.

SfN's 48th annual meeting, Neuroscience 2018, is the world's largest neuroscience conference for scientists and physicians devoted to understanding the brain and nervous system. 

SfN invites you to its renowned venue where neuroscientists collaborate and network with peers, learn from experts, explore the newest neuroscience tools and technologies, and discover great career opportunities. 

Neuroscience 2018 is November 3-7 at the San Diego Convention Center. Join more than 30,000 colleagues from more than 80 countries at the world’s largest marketplace of ideas and tools for global neuroscience.

More information can be found here.

Email program@sfn.org with questions about the meeting.

The following lab members will be attending the conference:

Poster presentations: Ruben van den Bosch, Danae Papadopetraki, Annelies van Nuland, Lieke van Lieshout, Lieke Hofmans, Sophie Brolsma

Roshan Cools will attend 6th Workshop on the Computational Properties of the Prefrontal Cortex (CPPC)  2018.

This workshop brings together emerging and established researchers of prefrontal cortex and anterior cingulate functions using a wide array of empirical and computational approaches.

The meeting is organized around chaired sessions with ample time for discussions.  Posters and data blitz sessions for trainees will also be proposed. An additional day (Oct. 15th) is organized with presentations on “Open Source Tools for Advanced Analysis and Experimentation of PFC Functions”.

Workshop Sesssion Themes:

Theme 1 – Computational Modeling of Prefrontal Cortex Functions

Theme 2 – Learning, Choice and Control in Prefrontal Cortex

Theme 3 – Social and Motivational Functions of the Prefrontal Cortex

Theme 4 – Neuromodulation of Prefrontal Cortex Functions

Theme 5 – Comparative Neuroanatomy / Evolution of Prefrontal Cortex

Theme 6 – Functional Microcircuits of the Prefrontal Cortex

Theme 7 – Long-Range Interactions of Prefrontal Cortex

Society for Psychophysiological Research
Annural meeting 3-7 October 2018

The SPR Annual Meeting is attended by scientists, researchers and industry professionals from around the world. The meeting includes presentations of new theory, methods and research in the form of invited addresses, symposia, poster sessions and Presidential and Award addresses. Pre-conference workshops are also offered on specific topics or methodological advances.

At the Society for Psychophysiological Research Eliana Vassena will be giving a talk in the symposium 'Effort costs in decision-making: insights from brain and behavior'. Her talk is titled 'Neurocomputational mechanisms underlying effort-based behaviour: The key to understanding and biasing decision-making'.

For more information look here.

The Eighth International Symposium on "Biology of Decision Making" (SBDM) will take place on May 21-23, 2018 in Paris, France. The first two days of conference will take place at the Institut du Cerveau et de la Moelle, 47 Boulevard de l'Hôpital, 75013 Paris. The third day will take place at Ecole Normale Supérieure, 29 rue d'Ulm, 75005 Paris. A social event will take place in the evening of May 22 in Zamansky Tower on the campus of Sorbonne Université (ex UPMC), 4 place Jussieu, 75005 Paris.

The objective of this three-day symposium will be to gather people from different research fields with different approaches (psychology, economics, ethology, psychiatry, neural, behavioral, computational and robotics approaches) to decision making.

The conference will include 6 sessions:

"Learning about the structure of the world to make decisions" (Chair: Chris Summerfield);

"Constructing and deconstructing subjective value" (Chair: Lesley Fellows);

"The neuroscience of moral decision-making" (Chair: Miriam Teschl);

"Decision-making across cultures and species" (Chair: Mathias Pessiglione);

"Dealing with uncertainty: exploration and curiosity" (Chair: Kenji Doya);

"Development and decision-making" (Chair: Mehdi Khamassi);

Important dates:

April 22, 2018 Deadline for Poster Submission

May 1, 2018 Notification of Poster Acceptance

May 8, 2018 Deadline for Registration

May 21-23, 2018 Symposium Venue

Computational Neuroscience of Prediction

15-18 April 2018: Rungstedgaard, North of Copenhagen, Denmark

Prediction is a pervasive requirement for organisms to be able to prepare for and adapt to complex, changing and challenging environments. Prediction is affected by cognitive and computational factors including limited capacity attention, risk and uncertainty, and affective biases; and it is the topic of a wealth of neuroscience experiments ranging from behavioural studies to powerful new approaches such as optogenetics. In this workshop, we will examine the problems and prospects for prediction from the combined perspectives of experimental and theoretical neuroscience, psychology and economics.

Organised by FENS in collaboration with The Brain Prize, these bi-annual conferences bring together outstanding researchers in key areas of contemporary neuroscience to discuss current concepts and define challenges for future research.

Application opens on 23 October 2017.

For more information see here.

The 2018 Winter Conference on Brain Research (WCBR) will be held January 14 - 19, 2018 in Whistler, British Columbia in Canada.
 

The mission of the Winter Conference on Brain Research (WCBR) is to provide a forum for the dissemination of all aspects of neuroscience at an annual meeting that offers cutting-edge science in formal sessions within a relaxed networking environment amenable to all. For more information visit this webpage.

The mission of the Winter Conference on Brain Research (WCBR) is to provide a forum for the dissemination of all aspects of neuroscience at an annual meeting that offers cutting-edge science in formal sessions within a relaxed networking environment amenable to all. To achieve this mission, the WCBR focuses on the following three sub goals:

To exchange neuroscience research between a broad and diverse audience of neuroscientists through panels, short courses, and posters on basic, clinical, and translational findings at all levels from molecular to behavioral.

To increase diversity in neuroscience including, but not limited to, the provision of financial support for junior investigators.

To provide education in neuroscience to physicians and other healthcare professionals through continuing medical education, and to lay audiences through outreach activities.

WCBR is a truly exhilarating meeting featuring broad overviews of basic and clinical findings in seminars and detailed discussions on specific issues in workshops and poster sessions. The first WCBR was organized by neuroscientists from UCLA near Lake Tahoe in 1968. There were 60 attendees. Now our meeting includes over 500 neuroscientists from all over the world who work in a wide variety of fields.

NVP Wintercongres 2017

The NVP is happy to announce that this year’s Winter Conference will be held from December 14 – 16, traditionally in Hotel Zuiderduin in Egmond. You can submit your abstracts and register for the conference via this menu once submission and registration opens. Proposals for symposia need to be sent via e-mail to Dr Simon van Gaal – see the call for symposia for more information.

Important dates and deadlines

June 1 – Deadline submission of symposium proposals

July 1 – Organizers of selected symposia will be notified

October 1 – Deadline for abstract submission

December 1 – Program will be available

December 14 – 16 – CONFERENCE

SOCIETY FOR NEUROSCIENCE

47th Annual Meeting 2017

11th - 15th November 2017

SFN NEUROSCIENCE 2017 is one of the most innovative meetings within the Health, Science, Neurology, Research and Neuroscience aspects and it is organized by Society for Neuroscience. SFN NEUROSCIENCE 2017 is an annual meeting. SFN NEUROSCIENCE 2017 47th Society for Neuroscience's Annual Meeting at Walter E. Washington Convention Center in Washington, D.C., Washington USA. More than 33000 attendees will attend SFN NEUROSCIENCE 2017 this year.

For more information and registration see here.

Computational Psychiatry: a didactic introduction

This course aims to introduce the tools and methods of this new approach to mental function and dysfunction. For more information see here.

The Brain Prize Meeting 2017

REWARDING NEUROSCIENCE

With international top keynote speakers including the three 2017 prizewinners, The Brain Prize Meeting brings together young neuroscientists and top researchers at this high-level neuroscience event. For the full program see here, and for registration here.

WHEN
Monday 30 October 2017 until Wednesday 1 November 2017

WHERE
Hindsgavl Castle, Middelfart, Denmark

SPEAKERS

Prizewinners
Peter Dayan, University College London, United Kingdom
Ray Dolan, University College London, United Kingdom
Wolfram Schultz, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom

Invited keynote speakers
Roshan Cools, Radboud University Medical Center, The Netherlands
Patricia Janak, Johns Hopkins University, USA
Morten Kringelbach, University of Oxford & Aarhus University, United Kingdom and Denmark
Yael Niv, Princeton University, USA
Melanie Wilke, University Medicine Goettingen, Germany

Invited special lecture
Demis Hassabis, DeepMind, United Kingdom

'New Talent Talk'
Ciara McCabe, University of Reading, United Kingdom

CERTIFICATION
The meeting is certified by the University of Copenhagen, Aarhus University and the University of Southern Denmark as an external Ph.D. course worth 1 (one) ECTS point. PhD students must submit an abstract to be eligible for the ECTS point.

PROGRAMME COMMITTEE
Kamilla Miskowiak, Copenhagen University Hospital and University of Copenhagen, Morten Mørup, Technical University of Denmark, Duda Kvitsiani, Aarhus University, Jakob Kisbye Dreyer, University of Copenhagen, and Tanja Sheldrick-Michel, University of Southern Denmark

ORGANIZERS
The Lundbeck Foundation in collaboration with Danish Universities and Danish Society for Neuroscience.

SPONSOR
The Lundbeck Foundation is the sole sponsor of this meeting.

AUDIENCE AND LANGUAGE
The meeting is open to junior and senior scientists in the field of basic as well as clinical neuroscience. The number of participants is limited to 120. The language is English.

ABSTRACTS
Participants are invited and encouraged to submit one or more abstracts. All PhD students attending are required to submit an abstract. Abstracts dealing with topics outside of the main theme of the meeting are also welcome. All submitted abstracts will be presented as either short oral presentations or poster presentations.

Submit abstracts in pdf format max 350 words to info@thebrainprize.org att. Line Kristensen.

Poster size: A0 = 1189 (H) x 841 (W) mm.

Deadline for abstracts: 10 October 2017.